Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. Overman. 50c. Doubleday.
7–30837.
A slight story of some hundred pages. “Its narrator is a scientist who went to the South seas in search of a lost brother and found him on a tropic island where he had been living entirely alone for twenty years. At first absorbed in the music he composed, his one earthly passion, the brother had gradually been led, in his utter solitude, by contemplation, feeling, and will, to heights of philosophy ever calmer and wider, until at last mind and will together had enabled him to break the bonds of flesh and to hold communion with the spiritual world.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It has a certain haunting suggestiveness, and enough crudities to make it exasperating to the critical reader. Like most of Mr. Sinclair’s work, it is keyed too high emotionally to be quite natural. And, as usual, he is so concerned with the thing he wants to say that it never occurs to him even to try to make his characters lifelike and convincing.”
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Singleton, Esther. [Dutch and Flemish furniture.] **$7.50. McClure.
A companion to Mrs. Singleton’s “French and English furniture.” “It opens with the splendour of the Burgundian court, where art and luxury first burst the fetters of stern mediævalism and where peace and plenty reigned at a time when the lands around were in the grip of battle or of civil war. It next plunges into the dark history of the religious wars and the emergence of a burgher state of staid habit and prudent outlay, though fully esteeming the domicile and eager for its comfort and adornment. Between the scheme of life of Duke Philip the Good and his nobles and that of the seventeenth-century Dutchman a great gulf is fixed, and Mrs. Singleton in her detailed and exhaustive work gives us ample material to realize the difference.” (Acad.)
“This book deals ably and amply with the story of domestic life and its material adjuncts in the low countries.”